'Nobody dies without a Healy Rae send-off - or perhaps nobody is born without a Healy Rae arrival'

THERE IS NO Irish political family like the Healy Raes. They’re successful – they’ve never lost any of the 22 elections they’ve taken part in locally and nationally – they’re united, and they’re a dynasty to be reckoned with.

In this week’s episode of The Explainer podcast, we look at what makes the Healy Raes so successful. To discuss it in studio were TheJournal.ie reporter Rónán Duffy, columnist and former Irish Independent editor Gerry O’Regan, and author Donal Hickey.“I think it started with their father,” says O’Regan of where the family’s political dynasty began.

“Fianna Fáil made, perhaps being far away from that part of that Ireland, made a strategic mistake by not giving him the go-ahead to run for the Dáil, so like many a spurned politician before he decided to run himself,” says O’Regan. Author Donal Hickey has literally written the book on the Healy Raes – The Healy Raes: A Twenty-Four Seven Political Legacy. What does he put their success down to? “They would say it’s because of the hard work they all do in the constituency,” he says.

O’Regan says: “The Healy Raes look after no 1 which is Kerry South and all the issues there which if you like affect people’s lives.” But he adds that there is a “a popular misconception” that “metropolitan or Dublin politics” isn’t necessarily local. Though they appear in the media a lot, and sometimes specifically to discuss comments like Danny’s about climate change, O’Regan doesn’t believe it affects the opinion of them locally:

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